American Cancer Society: Get Mammography By 40

The
United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced that it would
no longer recommend routine mammograms for women between the ages of
40 and 49, a group that accounts for about one out of six breast cancers. Otis W. Brawley, the Chief Medical Officer of the American
Cancer Society, disagrees. "We cannot underestimate the
importance of mammograms in detecting breast cancer at its early, most-treatable
stage." Read more...